David Goodis' _Black Friday_, has been adapted for the stage
and will be
showing at the Live Bait Theatre in Chicago from April
23rd.
Those of you in schools & colleges/libraries/bookshops
within reach of
the Chicago area may like to bring this production to the
attention of
your students/readers.
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March 27, 1997 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Ryan La Fleur
(773)
871-1212
Live Bait Theater presents an entire season devoted to
crime.
If you got the time, we got the crime!
Opening April 23 - June 14
Black Friday by David Goodis
Directed by Richard Cotovsky Adapted by Christopher
Peditto
What's a season about crime without a play about the
dysfunctional crime
family? An artist, a damaged dame, an ex-boxer, a big eyed
ingenue and a
boss
named Charlie. They all live under the same roof, but the
only blood
they
share, is the blood they've spilled. 1950's crime pulp king,
David
Goodis
turned crime into art, and melodrama into dramatic visions of
shattered
lives.
Black Friday is the story of an artist turned criminal and
how a group
of
small time crooks are bound by their complex relationships
and hermetic
codes
of respect and kinship.
David Loeb Goodis was born in 1917 in Philadelphia. After a
degree in
journalism, he wrote his first novel, Retreat From Oblivion,
in 1939.
During
the war years he principally wrote for pulp magazines. His
first four
crime
novels, Dark Passage, Behold This Woman, Nightfall, and Of
Missing
Persons,
enjoyed huge commercial success and he was soon lured to
Hollywood where
Dark
Passage was made into a film starring Humphrey Bogart and
Lauren
Bacall. Fame
in the film world proved elusive and he left Hollywood soon
after. For
the
rest of his career he never broke out of the ghetto of the
paperback
original
and died bitter and broke at 49 in 1967. His best known work,
Down There
was
later filmed by Francois Truffaut and re-titled, Shoot the
Piano Player,
thus
rendering Goodis a cult figure in France. Goodis' deeply
personal
fiction,
forged within the rigid conventions of the crime novel marks
his
premiere
status as the poet of the hard-boiled genre.
Adapted by Christopher Peditto, former artistic director of
Igloo
Theater and
directed by Richard Cotovsky, founding member and resident
director of
Mary-
Archie Theatre. The cast includes Anthony Fernadez, Tom
Fiscella,
Jennifer
Haering, Leo J. Harmon, John F. Mays, Arthur M. Morison, and
Laura Scott
Wade.
Sets and lights, Jerry Fortier; Costumes, Lisa Marie
Harrison; Sound
design,
Joe Fosco .
This production of Black Friday has been made possible by
special
arrangement
with the Goodis Estate.
*****
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 29, 1998
Contact: Ryan LaFleur at (773) 871-1212
PLEASE INCLUDE IN YOUR APRIL- JUNE LISTINGS
PRODUCTION: Black Friday
PLAYWRIGHT: Adapted by Christopher Peditto
DIRECTOR: Richard Cotovsky
OPENING: Thursday , April 23
DESCRIPTION: Black Friday tells the story of an artist
turned
burglar and his complex relationship to a group
of small time crooks. Adapted from the 1950s
crime pulp novel by David Goodis.
CLOSING: Sunday, June 14
CAST MEMBERS Anthony Fernadez, Tom Fiscella, Jennifer
Haering,
Leo J. Harmon, John F. Mays, Arthur M. Morison
and Laura Scott Wade.
SET & LIGHT DESIGN: Jerry Fortier.
COSTUME DESIGN: Lisa Harrison
SHOW TIMES: THURS. FRI. SAT. @ 8 PM SUN. @ 7PM
TICKET PRICE Tickets: $15.00, $10. 00 for students &
senior citizen
BOX OFFICE: For reservations and ticket info call
871-1212.
Master Card/Visa accepted.
LOCATION: Live Bait Theater 3914 N. Clark St.
Chicago, IL. 60613 Street parking available
This production of Black Friday has been made possible
by special arrangement with the Goodis Estate.
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